Subject: Re: sendmail getting an FPE signal, dying 4/5 times
To: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
From: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siva.captech.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/31/1996 10:10:42
Andrew Brown sez:
/*
* outside of the obvious solutions (replace the box, upgrade to 1.2 or
* current) has anyone out there seen this? does anyone have any clues
* about why it might be doing this? does someone more conversant with
* sendmail (i don't have much more than a passing familiarity with it)
* have any idea what it's using floating point for?
*/
This sounds like something to do with the load average. Check the sources
for float/double operations (there really couldn't be all that many
of them!) and you'll probably find your culprit.
--*greywolf;